Baltimore Man Pleads Guilty to Using the Internet to Entice a Minor to Engage in Sexually Explicit Conduct

U.S. Attorney’s Office
November 29, 2010

District of Maryland(410) 209-4800

BALTIMORE, MD—Jamie Paul Lybrand, age 25, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to
using the Internet to entice a child to engage in sexually explicit conduct.

The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland
Rod J. Rosenstein; Special Agent in Charge Richard A. McFeely of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation; Special Agent in Charge William Winter of U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, Office of Homeland Security Investigations; Baltimore County State's Attorney
Scott Shellenberger; and Chief James W. Johnson of the Baltimore County Police Department.

According to Lybrand's plea agreement, on February 25 and March 10, 2010, an
undercover Baltimore County Police detective responded to two separate CraigsList ads titled
"Seeking Daddy/Son Combo..." and "Seeking Real Daddy/Son Combo." Lybrand admitted that
he placed both ads and that he called and exchanged e-mails with what he thought was the father
of a 12-year-old boy. In the e-mails Lybrand discussed meeting with the father and son in order
for Lybrand to engage in sexually explicit conduct with the "son." In addition, Lybrand sent
images of child pornography depicting children engaging in sexually explicit conduct with adult
male(s) to the undercover detective.

On March 6, 2010, Lybrand contacted the undercover detective and arranged a meeting
at a hotel in Baltimore County. Lybrand knocked on the door of the agreed upon room number,
and the detective invited him into the room. Still in an undercover capacity, the detective
informed Lybrand that the 12-year-old child was in the bathroom of the hotel room. Lybrand
removed his clothing, exposing his penis, and laid in the bed in the hotel room. A few minutes
later, members of the Baltimore County Police Department entered the room and arrested
Lybrand.

As a result of his guilty plea, Lybrand will be required to register as a sex offender in the
place where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex
Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).

Lybrand faces a minimum mandatory sentence of 10 years in prison and a maximum of
life in prison for using the computer to entice a child to engage in sexual activity. U.S. District
Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. has scheduled sentencing for March10, 2011 at 1:00 p.m.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat
the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the
Department of Justice. Led by United States Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's
Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal,
state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit
children via the internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about
Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov. Details about Maryland's
program are available at www.justice.gov/usao/md/Safe-Childhood/index.html.

United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein commended the Baltimore County Police
Department, the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations, and the Baltimore County State's
Attorney's Office for their work in the investigation and prosecution. Mr. Rosenstein thanked
Assistant U.S. Attorney Bonnie S. Greenberg, who is prosecuting the case.